Technical Programme Manager
Instanda, United Kingdom
Job Description
Why adapt to the future when you can define it?
That’s exactly what the INSTANDA founders set out to do back in 2012. Born out of their frustration with how the legacy systems were holding back productivity across the Insurance sector, they knew there had to be a better way, so they built a solution that has been challenging the status quo ever since.
INSTANDA is the world’s first no-code platform for complex underwriting, and the first insurtech on Microsoft Azure. We have changed the way Insurers, Managing General Agents (MGAs), and Brokers can design and deliver insurance products to market, allowing them to configure new products at speed, and with huge cost-saving benefits.
INSTANDA has grown significantly in recent years and we are now a team of 120+ employees based in the UK and US, with partnerships that operate worldwide.
Our company was built by looking at the world through a different lens and our culture today reflects that by encouraging you to be yourself, speak your mind, and share your opinions. We want people who want to push themselves, be part of something great, and be prepared to challenge if they think there is a better way. Collaboration sits at the heart of how we operate, it has fueled our growth enormously and our aim to be ‘world class’. People at INSTANDA not only have a real sense of shared ownership, but are granted share options to benefit from our long term success making everyone an owner of the business.
So if this sounds like the place you can thrive in and grow your career, please keep reading!
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ABOUT THE TEAM
The Engineering Department is responsible for designing, developing, and testing the INSTANDA platform. All our applications are designed and developed in-house and hosted on Microsoft Azure.
The majority of our developers are full-stack, with some specializing in UI and databases. If performance or security are your thing you will a find a place for them here too!
Client Delivery are our Client-Facing team, who work closely with Engineering to deliver solutions to clients. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Technical Programme Manager to join our team, to help drive forward INSTANDA’s engineering initiatives in line with our clients’ needs, and our own internal development roadmap.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
Reporting to our CTO (and on an interim basis to our EMEA COO, as we are actively recruiting the new CTO role), the Technical Programme Manager will have responsibility for:
- Ensuring projects are scoped, approved, scheduled and undertaken in a structured and controlled manner.
- Providing programme support throughout the full project lifecycles, from inception to implementation, including scope, process, design, feasibility, and proof of concept
- Proactively monitoring, assessing and highlighting emerging risks and related mitigation strategies pertaining to any of the new initiatives.
- Build trusted relationships with and effectively manage all third party vendors and other external partners to ensure successful delivery of outcomes.
- Building strong relationships cross functionally to ensure program delivery is being directed based on current views, needs, and in line with defined roadmap.
- Manage cross-functional software engineering programs in a matrix organisation covering a range of areas.
Requirements
- Successful experience of implementing technology change and processes from scratch with the ability to delve into detail when required.
- Great stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organisation subject matter experts, functional leads, departmental heads.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, proactive can-do demeanour, and ability to communicate effectively with both technical and nontechnical individuals
- Experience of Software Development teams or Technical Product/Programme Management
- Driven, self-starter without requiring close supervision, collaborative, comfortable adapting to change and learning quickly in a dynamic organisation.
- Analytical and logical approach to problem solving
- Financial and commercial competence including exposure to budgeting processes and contractual discussions
- Strong facilitation skills to articulate clear outputs, drive teams or individuals towards specific desirable outcomes
- B.Sc. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Hands on experience in software engineering, systems engineering, hardware engineering, or technical product/program management.
- Demonstrated experience delivering tech programs or products from inception to delivery.
- Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams